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Past Book Review Articles

Into The Quick of Life
The Rwandan Genocide: The Survivors Speak

Friday 28th March 2008

Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Friday 14th March 2008

The story of ‘The Good Book
The Bible: The Biography

Friday 7th March 2008

Books / Whitewashed in Atrica / The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangaremba / Reviewed by
The Book of Not by Tsitsi Dangarembe Ayebia Publishing

Friday 1st February 2008

Infidel (My Life), Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Free Press, 2007
The story of an Apostate Somali Woman

Friday 25th January 2008

10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank,
Kevin Danaher, Seven Stories, 2004
A Militant’s Call for Action

Friday 18th January 2008

In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz, Michela Wrong, Picador, 2002
An anatomy of a kleptocracy

Friday 11th January 2008

Muhammad: Prophet of our Time, Karen Armstrong, Harper books, 2006
A biography of the Holy Prophet of Islam

Friday 4th January 2008

The Warrior and the Moon, Nick Would and Evie Safarwicz, Francis Lincoln publishers, 45 pages
The Spirit of the Maasai
Friday
28th December 2007

The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, By Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Random House, 2006
An Intriguing Story for Yuletide
Friday
14th December 2007

The Mystery of Capital, Hernando De Soto, Transworld,
275 pages
The ‘Poor’ are in fact rich, very rich

Friday 7th December 2007

Who Owes Who? 50 Questions About World Debt, Damien Millet and Eric Tousaint, CADMT, 2005
A Treatise on Third World Debt

Fri
day 30th November 2007

So Long a Letter, Mariama Ba, Heinemann African Writers’ Series 90 pages
Great African Literature
Friday 23rd November 2007

Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Laurence Gardner, Element Books, 2002, 445 Pages
Friday 16th November 2007

A Dirty War in West Africa, The RUF and the destruction of Sierra Leone, Lansana Gberie, Hurst and Company, 2005
Friday 9th November 2007

Genocide in Darfur, (Investigating the Atrocities in the Sudan), Samuel Totten and Eric Markussen) Routeledge, 2007
Friday 2nd November 2007

Infidel, (My Life), Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Free Press, 2007
Friday 26th October 2007

Everyday corruption and the state in Africa, G. Blundo et al, Zed books, 2006, 298 pages
Friday 19th October 2007

Allah is not obliged, Ahmadou Kourouma, Vintage Books, 2006
Friday 12th October 2007

A Long Way Home, memoir of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah, Fourth Estate, 2007
Friday 5th October 2007

Everyday corruption and the stat e in Africa, G. Blundo et al, Zed books, 2006, 298 pages
Friday 28th September 2007

Blood line of the Holy Grail, Laurence Gardner, Element books, 2002, 445 pages
Friday 14th September 2007

The Devil That Danced On the Water (A Daughter’s Mmoire), Aminata Forna, Flamingo 2002, 403 pages
Friday 7th September 2007

King Leopold’s Ghosts, Adams hohschild, Macmillan, 2006
How Europe underdeveloped Africa

Friday 31st August 2007

Amilcar Cabral, Patrick Chabal, Hurst and Company, 272 pages
The revolutionary life of the
Guinea Bissau Liberation hero
Friday 24th August 2007

King Leopold’s Ghosts, Adams hohschild, Macmillan, 2006
How Europe underdeveloped Africa

Fri
day 20th July 2007

Precolonial Black Africa,
Cheikh Anta Diop (translated)
Lawrence Hills Book, 1987

Friday 13th July 2007

In the Footsteps of Dr Kurtz,
Michela Wrong, Picador, 2002
An anatomy of a kleptocracy

Friday 6th July 2007

They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky,
Benson Deng, Alephson Deng, Benjamin Ajak,
Public Affairs, 2005

Friday 29th June 2007

God's Bit of Wood,
Sembene Ousmane,
African Writers Series,
248 pages

Friday 22nd June 2007

The Boat Boys,
Papa Jeng,
Ultrasoft Printers, 2007

Friday 15th June 2007

Scarlet Song
Mariamma Ba,
Longman African Writers’ Series 171 pages

Monday 11th June 2007

So Long a Letter, Mariama Ba Heinemann African Writers’ Series 90 pages
Great African Literature

Friday 1st June 2007

Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Laurence Gardner, Element Books, 2002, 445 Pages
Essential reading, this book

Friday 25th May 2007

The illustrated Long walk To Freedom, Nelson MANDELA, Little, Brown, 207 pages
The Life of Nelson Mandela in photos

Friday 18th May 2007

Amilcar Cabral, Patrick Chabal,
Friday 11th May 2007

Democracy by Force? Abbas Bundu, Universal Publishers, 316 pages
Explaining the Sierra Leone Civil War (1991-2001)

Friday 4th
May 2007

Private Secretary (female)/Gold Coast, Erica Powell, 226 pages
The White Woman Close to the Osageyfo

Friday 27th April 2007

The Travels in the Interior of Africa:
Mungo Park, Worldsworth Classics of World Literature, 2005,390 pages ...

Friday 20th April 2007

A Brief history of Kaabu and Fuladu (1300-1930), Al haji  Bakary Sidibe,  L’Harmattan, 127 pages.
Friday 13th April 2007

The slave trade, by ...
Fri
day 30th March 2007

BURY THE CHAINS, Adam Hochschild,
Pan books, 2006, paperback

Friday 23rd March 2007

Why Europe will run the 21st century, Mark Leonard, HarperCollins,
Fri
day 16th March 2007

The Last King of ...
Fictionalizing the ...

Friday 9th March 2007

A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE GAMBIA ...
Friday 2nd March 2007

Mugabe, Martin...
Friday 16th February 2007

‘Kwame Nkrumah, A Biography’
Friday 9th February 2007

I didn’t Do it For You
Friday 2nd February 2007



 
 

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